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Ohm Bands

1.58 Ω resistor colour code

Five bands: Brown · Green · Grey · Silver · Brown. The first three give the digits — a precision value needs all three — then the multiplier, then how far off the real part may be.

158×0.01±1%
Brown1Green5Grey8Silver×0.01Brown±1%

Nominal

1.58 Ω

1.58 ohms

Real range at ±1%

1.5642 Ω – 1.5958 Ω

A brown band allows this much drift.

Series

E96

A 1% precision value. Five bands, not four.


Band by band

BandColourMeaning
1Brown1st digit — 1
2Green2nd digit — 5
3Grey3rd digit — 8
4SilverMultiplier — ×0.01
5BrownTolerance — ±1%

How much it can take

Current and dissipation across the resistor, and the package you need. The suggested rating keeps a factor of two in hand, which is what anyone building a board actually does.

Across itCurrentDissipatedPackage to pick
3.3 V2.09 A6.89 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink
5 V3.16 A15.8 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink
12 V7.59 A91.1 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink
24 V15.2 A365 Wno standard part — needs a power resistor or a heatsink

What you can actually get

Parts made

22

735th most of 1,465 values

In stock

0

across 0 of them

Cheapest at 100

$0.0182

each

Tolerances sold

±0.1% to ±1%

Packages: 0805, 0603, 0402, 2512, 1206, 1210, 2010, 0612. Ratings: 63mW to 2W.

What ten of them actually cost

The price everyone quotes is the reel price. If you want ten, you cannot buy the reel — and the real figure is usually several times higher per piece.

Ten pieces

$0.26

$0.026 each · Cut Tape (CT) · minimum order 1

The reel price

$0.00349

each, but only from 50,000 pieces up

Sitting in stock

46,386

across 4 part numbers

Per piece, ten costs 7.4× the reel price. That gap is why a handful of resistors never costs what the headline price suggests.

Stocked in ±1%, rated 1/16 W to 1/8 W.

Cheapest part you can buy ten of: RMCF0603FT1R58 by Stackpole Electronics Inc — see it at Digi-Key.

Assembly stock from the JLCPCB library, read 2026-09-24. Retail prices and stock from Digi-Key, read 2026-09-24. Prices move — check the product page before ordering. That is what a board house will place for you — not everything a distributor sells.

The same value, marked differently

Surface mount

1R6· three-digit, nearest only

1R58· four-digit, precision parts

20A· EIA-96, for the smallest parts

Three digits carry two significant figures, so they cannot write 1.58 Ω — 1R6 means 1.6 Ω. A part at this value is marked 1R58.

If you only have E24

BrownBlueGoldGold

1.6 Ω is the nearest four-band value — +1.3% off.

Values that can overlap this one

At ±1% the tolerance bands of neighbouring values run into each other. A part sold as one of these could measure the same as a 1.58 Ω — which is why measuring beats reading when it matters.

If you do not have one

Standard values that land within 1% of 1.58 Ω when combined.